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Cosmocat

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11. Yeah, this is true in part
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:55 AM
Dec 2016

there absolutely is a very strong faction of people who buy the trickle down scam.

This is mostly 1) the business wing of the party that has the capacity to loot tax payer coffers and use this scam as the means to do so 2) the hair brained libertarian type twits who think they are so smart they know something no one else does.

I would say, however, the subtext of that framing that appeals to the "working class" is the part that focuses on "THEM" getting their tax dollars.

It was St. Ronnie who coined the term "welfare queen."

Every rural type or blue collar type who buy that bullshit I know is willing to jeopardize their little government handouts out of their red hot rage over the thought of some BMW driving row house living type they have heard about on food stamps.

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